Neville Glover

Neville Glover
Personal information
Full name Neville Glover
Born (1955-07-22) 22 July 1955
Sydney
Playing information
Position Wing

Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1975–81 Parramatta Eels 118 54 0 0 152
1983 Penrith Panthers 11 4 0 0 16
Total 129 58 0 0 168
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1978 Australia 2 2 0 0 6
1978 New South Wales 1 0 0 0 0
1980 City NSW 1 0 0 0 0
Source: [1]

Neville Glover (born 22 July 1955) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s. A New South Wales interstate and Australian international representative winger, he played his club football in the NSWRL Premiership with the Parramatta Eels and Penrith Panthers.

A Seven Hills junior, Glover made his debut for Parramatta in 1975.[2] The following year Parramatta reached the grand final which was played against Manly-Warringah. With ten minutes of the match remaining and 15 metres out from a wide-open try line,. Speaking in 2008 about the game, Glover said "Mate I'm at a prosecutors conference today and the dropped ball thing has already been mentioned twice, I wouldn't say it gets brought up daily but certainly once a week it gets a mention".[3] Glover dropped the pass which could have given the Eels the match-winning try.[4][5]

In 1978, Glover made his Australian test debut in Brisbane against a touring New Zealand side in the second of a three-test series.[6] He scored the first of his two tries of the match after being on the field for only two minutes.[7] He is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No. 511.[8] Glover also represented New South Wales in 1979 against Great Britain.[9]

Following a grand final loss in reserve grade, Glover left Parramatta. He played one more season with Penrith in 1983.

In 2001, Neville Glover was named in the Parramatta Eels 'Team of the century'.

After playing Glover went into coaching and later became a police officer. He later became the senior sergeant in charge of all Hunter Region police prosecutors.[10]

References

  1. Neville Glover at rugbyleagueproject.org
  2. "Player numbers 1947 – present". parraeels.com.au. Parramatta Eels. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  3. "Top 10 finals blunders". Daily Telegraph. News Limited. 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
  4. O'Neill, Matthew (14 September 2007). "Eels vs Bulldogs Classic – Triple Mortimer Magic". rleague.com. Rleague.com PTY LTD. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  5. Ryan, Stephen (28 September 2001). "Not a Neville Nobody". Manning River Times. Australia: Fairfax. Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  6. "Kiwis routed in rugby Test". The Age. Australia. 17 July 1978. p. 29. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  7. Pearce, Col (16 July 1978). "Fulton puts in a big claim". The Sun-Herald. Australia. p. 69. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  8. ARL Annual Report 2005
  9. "Neville Glover". yesterdayshero.com.au. Australia: SmartPack International. 2008. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  10. Walshaw, Nick (18 September 2008). "Famous footy fumbles still haunt". Daily Telegraph. Australia: News Limited. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
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